Asked in an interview whether he thinks “states should have a right to ban gender-affirming health care,” President Biden told his questioner, transgender “TikTok influencer” Dylan Mulvaney, “I…
The Department of Justice on Monday announced charges against 13 Chinese nationals, including intelligence agents, accused of criminal activity in the U.S. linked in part to President Xi Jinping’…
The Chinese Communist Party handed President Xi Jinping a historic third term at the helm at the weekend, but the unexpected removal from the hall of a former president struck a jarring note in…
A Russian diplomat at the United Nations on Wednesday again denied claims by Kyiv and its Western backers that Moscow is using Iranian-supplied combat drones in its war in Ukraine. But he also…
President Biden on Wednesday announced the sale of another 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – the last of a 180 million barrel release first authorized in March – and…
In his Tuesday night Florida Senate race debate against Democratic Rep. Val Demings, Sen. Marco Rubio said the U.S. has “got to begin to produce American oil again” and questioned the motive…
Democrat Rep. Val Demings on Tuesday night suggested her rival in the Florida Senate race was playing at being a “national security expert.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) countered the barb by saying…
Despite evidence to the contrary and accusations by Ukraine and Western partners, the Iranian regime continues to deny having provided drones which Russia is using to deadly effect in Ukraine. An…
As the world watches and reacts to anti-regime protests in Iran that entered a second month at the weekend, former President Barack Obama conceded that decision-making in his White House on how to…
As protests roiling Iran approach their fifth week, a video clip posted online on Thursday purportedly shows uniformed and plainclothes security force personnel assaulting a protestor before…
Before the U.N. General Assembly voted on Wednesday on a resolution condemning President Vladimir Putin’s bid to seize four Ukrainian regions, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield…
President Biden said on Tuesday he saw no “rationale” to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit both are expected to attend in Indonesia next month, although…
The administration is exploring “alternatives” in response to the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production quota by two million barrels a day, President Biden said on Thursday, but when asked if…
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday voted down a U.S.-proposed resolution calling for a debate on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, with almost every Islamic state siding with China.…
Video clips posted online show teenage girls among those protesting against the Iranian regime and its hijab regulations. The removal, waving, and sometimes burning of headscarves has become the…
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that there was “no equivalency” between “reckless” ballistic missile launches by North Korea and U.S…
After opposition from Russia and China prevented the U.N. Security Council from taking a unified position Wednesday on the latest North Korean ballistic missile launch, the U.S. led a group of…
CIA Director Bill Burns has publicly expressed admiration for protestors in Iran, saying they are “fed up with economic decay, with corruption, with the social restrictions especially that Iranian…
In his first appearance and public statement in weeks, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed 17 days of protests on the United States, Israel, and Iranian traitors, saying…
NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg and Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin have both gently pushed back against the idea that Ukraine could be granted fast-track accession to the…
In response to Vladimir Putin’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday announced that Kyiv was applying for “accelerated accession to NATO,”…
As Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to annex four more regions of Ukraine, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the move “would have no legal value and deserves to…
The Biden administration on Wednesday dismissed as “Russian disinformation” suggestions that the United States was behind the apparent sabotage of two major Russia-to-Europe natural gas pipelines…
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines could have been sabotaged by the U.S, Russia, or a third party,…
As voting on joining Russia drew to a close in four Russian-held Ukrainian regions on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. was introducing a U.N. Security…